Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature from the deep, and Tom Hanks, as the produce merchant who loves her, start to get goopy, there is a New York City street person available to assert the reality principle: Eugene Levy, splendid as a mad scientist who seems to have wandered in from a Jaws sequel, or John Candy, fine as a man who thinks Penthouse centerfolds are philosophical statements...
...deeper reaches, Fo's manic comedy is a splendid treatise on the mentality and mechanics of official lying. The play would have had hilarious pertinence if it had played Washington during the last months of the Nixon Administration. But Fo is examining something more sinister than Watergate ever was. Fo is thinking of a dark, sanctioned thuggery-the kind that kills-and of an endless manipulation of the record, the facts of the past dissolving and reforming themselves into new shapes, like that cloud that Hamlet and Polonius discussed. Certain psychological and moral circumstances, Fo knows, bring about...
...fact that one elected official remained solidly on his side. At his press conference Wednesday night, the President was asked whether Shultz had failed in Lebanon and should resign. Said Reagan: "I have seen that talk, and I think it's disgraceful. He has done a splendid...
...across the bottom-astonishing, even in hindsight-and then up the trunk and down the arms. Even as the Mahres did their twin-brother act one more time, they seemed to symbolize a passing of the old order, in a mixed-up, wonderful two weeks of blizzards, postponements and splendid achievements...
...thoughtful people are still swayed by the idea that the presidency is a kind of political purgatory because of its loneliness and burdens. Thomas Jefferson liked plantation life better than running an uncertain new Government and started the idea of a "splendid misery" along the Potomac. Today political opponents often find it comforting to believe that the other fellow is yearning for home...